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December 2024

Northampton’s Connection to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

2024-12-13T14:18:34+00:0013 December 2024|News, Northampton|

John Elwes, born John Meggot in 1714, was a notoriously frugal 18th-century politician and a member of the affluent Elwes family from Great Billing, Northamptonshire. Despite inheriting a vast fortune, Elwes chose a life of extreme austerity, mirroring the miserly character of Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. His peculiar habits—ranging from wearing threadbare clothes to eating meagre meals in unheated homes—left a lasting impression on local history and may have even inspired Dickens’ iconic creation.

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